Re: HTML Canvas performance in the Browse activity

2009-06-01 Thread John Gilmore
I suspect that the reason relates to the OLPC's unique screen. The physical pixels are spaced at 200 per inch horizontally and vertically. But there's only one color per pixel, not three. Each pixel lights up in a particular color. In a 'red' pixel, the green and blue sub-values from the frame

Browse page with full-sized images crashes Browse and Firefox, it seems partly a wiki.laptop.org issue

2009-06-01 Thread S Page
or Browse no browse Browse :-) Visit http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse in either Browse or Firefox on 8.2.1 and your laptop will lock up and minutes later Browse will die. This is mentioned in comments on http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8278 and http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8719 If you use Firefox's

Re: [Fwd: Xo 1.5 wlan]

2009-06-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 07:20, Andrés Ambrois andresambr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:15:58 am Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 16:09, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/31/09, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Reinder

Re: HTML Canvas performance in the Browse activity

2009-06-01 Thread Mihai Sucan
Hello John! Le Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:26:20 +0300, John Gilmore g...@toad.com a écrit: The XO browser has two problems actually: 1) performance issue caused by scaling everything up; 2) the difference in the scaling logic from a normal Gecko build. Problem 2: Keeping the current 134 DPI value

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-06-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 31 May 2009, at 15:34, Reinder de Haan wrote: Tiago Marques wrote: On 5/31/09, Reinder de Haan r...@mveas.com wrote: Sascha Silbe wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:16:53PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: 1. Earthing. The current design has no earth at the AC end, and is isolated in

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] What is the vision for software update?

2009-06-01 Thread Martin Dengler
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:54:34AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Does it require Root to update the software? root is required to update the OS via yum/rpm. Do students do it themselves somehow? Students can update Activities via the Sugar control panel. Is the updating of activities vs

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-06-01 Thread Walter Bender
The chart is of limited utility. For example, Argentina and Oz share the same socket except that the pins are different lengths, so that if you try to import an Oz plug into Argentina, you will get stopped in customs. (Lesson learned the hard way.) -walter On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Gary C

Videos of XO 1.5 in Taipei

2009-06-01 Thread Charbax
Posted to http://olpc.tv Filming Pixel Qi and more in just a bit.. -- Charbax, Nicolas Charbonnier ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Bootloader question

2009-06-01 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello I'm still preparing my custom images for the Haïti project, and I am quite disturbed by the JFFS2 boottime. From what I've read on the wiki, JFFS2 is here only because OFW doesn't know how to use UBIFS. This brings a question - is it possible to replace OFW with something that could use

Re: Videos of XO 1.5 in Taipei

2009-06-01 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
It would be nice if olpc.tv used ogg vorbis. Is there any way to get the videos of XO 1.5 in Taipei, etc. posted in a linux friendly format? XO users are excluded from viewing material about the XO. Where the FOSS are you!! In other words FOSS you..tube, use Ogg

Re: [Server-devel] Server configuration

2009-06-01 Thread Grape Projects IT
Hi Martin, I have never setup a static address before and therefore have never had this issue before. Below is the step-by-step configuration that I followed and I am having a problem with the DNS as the XO's do not connect to the Internet I downloaded the XS 0.5.2 image and followed the

Re: [Server-devel] Server configuration

2009-06-01 Thread Reuben K. Caron
Neo, Hi. I'm wondering why you need the Static IP. Does the XS have one or two network cards? Will the XS act as a gateway to the Internet? Thanks, Reuben Grape Projects IT wrote: Hi Martin, I have never setup a static address before and therefore have never had this issue before. Below

[Server-devel] What is the vision for software update?

2009-06-01 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, We are working on making software update (both activities and underlying OS) work for Sugar on a Stick and we aren't that clear on what the vision, spec and state of code is for software update on the XO. Does it require Root to update the software? Do students do it themselves somehow? Do

[Server-devel] Aliasing and backup

2009-06-01 Thread Dave Bauer
Ok, I am asked here after I read the XS Blueprint for account aliasing, I am not sure I am thinking about this the right way. I registered SoaS and generated a backup and its available from Moodle just fine. I later register another SoaS and go to the the old registration, click the alias tab,